CV
Education
- 2013 Ph.D in Archaeology, Institute of Archaeology, UCL.
- 2007 MSc in GIS and Spatial Analysis in Archaeology, Institute of Archaeology, UCL.
- 2006 Laurea Magistrale in Storia Orientale, Dipartimento di Storia e Lingue Orientali, University of Bologna.
Employment
- Current - Associate Professor in Computational Analysis of Long-Term Human Cultural and Biological Dynamic, Department of Archaeology, Univesity of Cambridge
- 2016-2020 Lecturer in Computational Analysis of Long-Term Human Cultural and Biological Dynamic, Department of Archaeology, Univesity of Cambridge
- 2016 McDonald Anniversary Research Fellow, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Univesity of Cambridge
- 2014-2016 Research Fellow (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Individual Fellowship, NiCoSS Project), Department of Humanities, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
- 2013-2014 Research Associate (EUROEVOL Project), Institute of Archaeology, UCL
Research Projects and Collaborations
- Current Projects
- 2019-2024 Demography, Cultural change, and the Diffusion of Rice and Millet during the Jomon-Yayoi transition in prehistoric Japan (ENCOUNTER) Project, ERC Starter Grant (PI)
- 2017-2021 Crops, pollinators and people: the long-term dynamics of a critical symbiosis (BuckBee) Project, Leverhulme Research Grant (Co-I, PI: Prof. Martin Jones)
- 2021-2023 ArchBiMod – Agent-Based Modelling to assess the quality and bias of the archaeological record, Marie Sklodowska-Curie IF (Host Supervisor; PDRA: Dr. Alfredo Cortell-Nicolau)
- Collaborations
- LandCover6K (Archaeology/history-based LU, WP-LU8)
Teaching
- Courses Taught/Coordinated
- A11/B5 From Data to Interpretation (Coordinator)
- B12 Culture Evolves (Coordinator)
- A2 Archaeology in Action (Guest Lecturer)
- B1 Humans in Biological Perspective (Guest Lecturer)
- B6 Major Topics in Human Evolutionary Studies (Guest Lecturer)
- Current PhD Students
- Rachel Blevis (main supervisor)
- Leah Brainerd (main supervisor)
- Friederike Jürcke (advisor, main supervisor: Dr Cameron Petrie)
- Marta Krzyzanska (main supervisor)
- Joseph Lewis (main supervisor)
- Sergio Russo (advisor, main supervisor: Prof. Augusta MacMahon)
- Charles Simmons (main supervisor)
- Benjamin J Utting (advisor, main supervisor: Dr Alaistair Key)
- Jasmine Vieri (advisor, main supervisor: Prof Marcos Martinon-Torres)
- Andriana Xenaki (advisor, main supervisor: Dr Yannis Galanakis)
- Past PhD student
- Helen Alderson (advisor,main supervisor: Dr Elizabeth DeMarrais)
- Mncedisi Siteleki (co-supervisor, main supervisor: Prof Per Ditlef Fredriksen)
Selected Publications
(see here for full list, links, and dowloads)
Crema, E.R., (2022). Statistical Inference of Prehistoric Demography from Frequency Distributions of Radiocarbon Dates: A Review and a Guide for the Perplexed. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-022-09559-5
Crema, E.R., Bevan, A. (2021). Inference from large sets of radiocarbon dates: software and methods, Radiocarbon, 63, 23-39.
Crema, E.R., Shoda, S., (2021). A Bayesian approach for fitting and comparing demographic growth models of radiocarbon dates: A case study on the Jomon-Yayoi transition in Kyushu (Japan), Plos One, 16(5): e0251695.
Crema, E.R., Kobayashi, K., (2020). A multi-proxy inference of Jōmon population dynamics using bayesian phase models, residential data, and summed probability distribution of 14C dates. Journal of Archaeological Science, 117, 105136.
Crema, E.R. (2018). Statistical Inference and Archaeological Simulations, The SAA Archaeological Record,18(2), 20-23.
Crema, E.R., Bevan, A., Shennan, S.(2017). Spatio-temporal approaches to archaeological radiocarbon dates. Journal of Archaeological Science 87, 1-9
Crema, E.R. ,Habu, J., Kobayashi, K., Madella, M. (2016). Summed Probability Distribution of 14C Dates Suggests Regional Divergences in the Population Dynamics of the Jomon Period in Eastern Japan. PloS ONE 11(4): e0154809
Crema, E.R., Kandler, A., Shennan, S., (2016) Revealing patterns of cultural transmission from frequency data: equilibrium and non-equilibrium assumptions. Scientific Reports 6, 39122.
Crema, E.R., Lake, M. (2015) Cultural Incubators and Spread of Innovation (2015), Human Biology, 87 (3), 151-168.
Crema E.R. (2014). A simulation model of fission-fusion dynamics and long-term settlement change. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory , 21, 385-404.
Crema, E.R. Kerig, T., Shennan, S. (2014). Culture, Space, and Metapopulation: a simulation-based study for evaluating signals of blending and branching in archaeology. Journal of Archaeological Science, 43, 289-298.
Crema, E.R., (2012) Modelling temporal uncertainty in archaeological analysis. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory,19, 440-461.
Eve, S., Crema, E.R. (2014). A House with a View? Multi-model inference, visibility fields, and point process analysis of a Bronze Age settlement on Leskernick Hill (Cornwall, UK). Journal of Archaeological Science, 43, 267-277.
Shennan, S., Crema, E.R., Kerig, T. (2015). Isolation-by-distance, homophily, and “core” vs. “package” cultural evolution models in Neolithic Europe. Evolution and Human Behaviour. 36 (2), 103-109.
Editorial Work
- Associate Editor: Journal of Archaeological Science
- Editorial Board Member:
- Japanese Journal of Archaeology
- Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports
- Journal of Open Archaeology Data
- Peer-Reviews for: American Antiquity, Antiquity; Anthropological and Archaeological Sciences; Current Anthropology;Environmental Archaeology; Frontiers in Digital Archaeology; Humanities and Social Sciences Communications; Journal of Anthropological Archaeology; Journal of Archaeological Science; Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports; Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory; Nature Communications; Nature: Scientific Reports; Open Quaternary; Papers of the Institute of Archaeology; PLOS ONE; PLOS Computational Biology; Proceedings of the Computer Applications in Archaeology Conference; Quaternary International; Radiocarbon, Theorethical Population Biology,Trends in Ecology & Evolution; World Archaeology; the National Science Foundation, and edited volumes for Ubiquity Press and Springer.